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80% of Cell Phone Encryption Solutions Insecure
An anonymous reader writes "Mobile Magazine writes about a blogger named Notrax who has tested 15 methods of secure encryption for mobile phones; out of those he found only 3 could not be cracked at some level. '12 of them were "worthless." It's easy to take the software at face value when it "tells you" that the call is secured. But how does someone actually go about being sure that it is secured? Notrax did some digging and discovered he could break in to almost all of them in under 30 minutes.'" (Above link is to a slightly older description of Notrax's approach; then, it was 9 out of 10 products that were worthless, instead of 12 out of 15.)
Absolutely correct.
I happen to know that there are simple software/hardware hacks/backdoors on 98% of phones in existence. All of these are built in by the manufacturers at our behest - 'our' being NSA, MI6, CIA, ASIO and DSD of Australia.
Don't trust any technology or hardware that you don't have complete and unhindered access to. I'm telling you now, I've seen records pulled up on people for things that the above mentioned agencies should never have had access to - things regular plebs wouldn't have believed possible to monitor. Those fellows will get records down to every time you've gone to the toilet - its that scary.